Notices by Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)

On Chat Control and other fascist anti-encryption legislation:

If any government ever demands I introduce a backdoor into any software I develop, my plan is to send them a nice, artisanal gift basket containing an Echinopsis lageniformis, a bottle of Bad Dragon cum lube, and instructions printed on fine stationery describing, in intricate detail, how to use the two.

I saw someone a while ago quip something to the tune of "furries only have one joke, and it's their sex life".

And, yeah, but there's a very good reason why that is.

Most people when they join the fandom from a less accepting environment. There's a lot of internalized shame, especially if you were in the closet about your gender or sexual orientation. One way that people cope with adjustments is through humor.

Furry sex jokes are often thinly veiled self-deprecation.

"Haha, look how down bad I am." -> decoder ring -> "I could have never even joked about being a thirsty slut before I found this space, and I'm still not fully comfortable with that."

Not always. But sometines.

So, the IACR held an election, but one of the three trustees lost their private key, which prevented them from verifying the results of the election. Forcing them to start over.

The cryptography association was foiled by key management.

See also, this gem from @leak

https://hachyderm.io/@leak/110784289970982813

If you're curious about thee state of #FediE2EE.

I've been implementing the cryptography protocols used in building Key Transparency for Fedi.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/pkd-crypto

With this in hand, I'm writing a reference implementation of the server software as defined in the specification.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification

Once this is implemented, I'm going to update the specification with anything I learned while writing the server osftware.

One thing I already learned: I need to be specific about how HPKE ciphertexts are serialized. The current spec draft doesn't tell implementors what to do here.

Once the spec + implementation are in a good place, I'll deploy a test instance and release a PHP client (using the same crypto library).

Separately, a Rust client is being developed. https://github.com/Waelwindows/pkd-client

The main idea here is to FFI the Rust implementation in other languages (Ruby, etc.).

Once all this is done, we get to go through a few cycles of peer review until we calcify the spec with a major version 1.0 release

Discourse: exists

Me: "no thank you"

@qgustavor @Em0nM4stodon I'm actively working on getting the Public Key Directory server written. I should expect to have something soon.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/issues/2

The ActivityPub E2EE folks (including @evan) are aware of this: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/issues/35

Once the server software is stable, I'll work on releasing language-specific SDKs to make it easier for Fedi to adopt it:

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/issues/78

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-he-just-pled-guilty-to-child-charges/

Yep, that is right on the nose.

@ireneista It was queer BlueSky users that said to me they needed Lists before they even think about switching.

And if I take them on face value, how do we design a feature that gives them the UX they want without spreading hatred, etc.?

@jhwgh1968 @anthropy Well, @evan is well aware of it

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/issues/35

Fun observation:

If you do cool stuff, then over time you will gather a bunch of people who are interested in doing cool shit, and will quickly feel like the cool shit you're doing is inadequate because you're surrounded by people who can do cooler shit than you.

This is a desirable outcome. (It's related to the friendship paradox, too!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox

If any of the {blogs, software} I've written over the years was useful at all to you or someone you know, I'd like to hear about it.

@dalias @FlatFootFox If they do that and put the quoted thing first in the UI, I think all the ways quotes were abused on other platforms would be mitigated?

@FlatFootFox We'll see how it works out, yeah

Subtext: so are my worst puns

https://bsky.app/profile/soatok.bsky.social/post/3lybjcaoocc2l

One thing I don't miss about Twitter, which is unfortunately also very prevalent on BlueSky, is the reply guys who want to argue with strangers

"Thanks for asking, whoever the fuck you are. Moving onto questions from the actual community..."

The one thing I actually dislike about BlueSky is that it's home to people who thought "old Twitter" was a good thing

https://bsky.app/profile/emeraldxmusic.com/post/3lybpi6ipik2d

One of these days, there will be two simultaneous phenomena:

1. A shitpost will be taken seriously
2. A serious issue will be taken as a shitpost

And there's a good chance I'll be the cause of both

@evan I don't talk about my dayjob stuff here :P

@evan I sure hope not, or else someone's really getting a bad deal